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Length 8 mm. 



Male (allotype). — Head with front at narrowest 0.24 head width; 

 frontal row of 9 or 10 bristles, extending from on a level with arista to 

 2 reclinate preverticles ; facial ridge bristly on lowest one-sixth; gena 

 one-fifteenth eye height; frontal orbit, face, and posterior orbit light 

 silvery-gray pollinose; antenna black, third segment four times sec- 

 ond; arista thickened on basal one-third, penultimate segment short. 

 Pulvilli long. Abdomen black, covered with gray pollen, second 

 segment with one pair of marginal macrochaetae ; abdominal hairs 

 erect. Otherwise the description is the same as for the female. 



Length 6.5 mm. 



The female paratype material differs as follows : Front 0.27 to 0.29 ; 

 frontal bristles from five to seven, usually six; third joint of antenna 

 from three and one-quarter to four times the second. Abdomen black, 

 more heavily covered with gray pollen. 



Length 8 to 9 mm. 



Type and allotype localities. — Yale, Idaho, and Altmar, N. Y. 



Distribution. — Maine 1, New Hampshire 1, Massachusetts 1, New 

 York 1, Idaho 1, California 1. 



Type.— Female, U.S.N.M. No. 54153. 



Hosts. — Notolophus antiqua (Linnaeus) 5, TIcmerocampa leucostig- 

 ma (Abbot and Smith) 1, Halisidota tessellaris (Abbot and Smith) 2, 

 cocoon of caterpillar on Abies concolor 2. 



Remarks. — Material examined consisted of the female type, Yale, 

 Idaho, July 28, 1927 (Aldrich) and the following reared specimens 

 bearing Gypsy Moth Laboratory note numbers : Allotype, No. 12109 

 Nil; one female paratype, Everett, Mass., 12108 K6; one female para- 

 type, Bangor, Maine, 12109 M7a ; one female paratype, Altmar, N. Y., 

 12109 Nil; one female paratype, Duane, N. Y., 12109 P6; one female 

 paratype, Claremont, N. H., 12131 D8; one headless female, 12109 J9; 

 one badly rubbed and battered male, 11757 H6; and one male and one 

 female, Signal Peak, Mariposa County, Calif., December 1907 (Miller) . 



4. Genus APLOMYA Robineau-Desvoidy 



Aplomya Robineau-Desvoidy, Mem. Acad. Sci. Inst. France, vol 2, p. 184, 1830; 

 Histoire naturelle des dipteres des environs de Paris, vol. 1, p. 459 [on page 

 460 (A. sonata Robineau-Desvoidy) = Tachina confinis Fallen], 1S63. — 

 Coquileett, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 37, pp. 509, 553, 1910.— Tow nsend, 

 Manual of myiology, pt. 3, p. 231, 1936. [Genotype, (A. sonata) = Tachina, 

 confinis Fallen. By designation of Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863, in synonymy.] 



Hueoneria Rokineau-Desvoidy, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, p. 601, 1847 ; Histoire 

 naturelle des dipteres des environs de Paris, vol. 1, p. 279 [ ( Carcrlia 

 nigripes Robineau-Desvoidy) = Tachina aflinis Fallen], 1S63. — Coquili.ett 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 37, p. 553, 1910. — Townsend, Manual of myiology, 

 pt. 4, pp. 209, 212, 1936. [Genotype, (C. nigripes) = Tachina affinis Fallen. 

 By designation of Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863, in synonymy.] 



